Strengthen emotional security to thwart cyberattacks
While love, loneliness, and excitement are easily exploitable emotions, any factor impacting someone’s emotional state can make them a target....
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Emerging crypto hub UAE shapes digital assets’ future
"As 2024 unfolds, we anticipate that both private and public enterprises will increase their investments in the infrastructure and services...
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Three trends that will shape payroll this year
It seems unlikely that the volatility we have experienced since the start of the pandemic will disappear. Therefore, payroll teams...
- Covid-19 has tested the flexibility and resilience of payroll teams, forcing them to cater for hybrid working models and respond with agility to evolving tax relief measures
- Challenging times have prompted many payroll departments to modernise their systems and processes in anticipation of even more change to come
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Diginomics helps revive region’s consumer confidence
It is becoming incredibly important for organisations, brands and brand owners to prioritise the refinement of their products and services....
- Armed with AI algorithms, tech startups, direct-to-consumer players, fintechs, edtechs, regional economies are becoming more digitally resilient
- It is becoming incredibly important for organisations, brands and brand owners to automate processes that are otherwise time consuming
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Cryptocurrencies: Proof-of-work spared for now
Due to growing environmental consequences, even though proof-of-work was spared in the EU for now, it is simply too fragile...
- The European Union was on Tuesday supposed to vote on a bill named MiCA intended to regulate crypto in the EU.
- The Ukrainian government is arguably one of the first governments to ask for donations in cryptocurrencies.
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Measuring the impact of investment on ESG factors
With more ESG marketing claims questioned by clients, asset and wealth management firms can no longer tout ESG without convincing...
- As investors get more sophisticated about ESG matters, they are questioning the claims of commitment to sustainably invested assets and ostensibly sustainable products
- The solution to this strategic challenge lies in prioritizing ESG factors for specific target clients and building a model that reliably quantifies the impact on those factors
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Gulf travel industry rides on frequent innovations
While biometric identity management systems have helped improve the pandemic-like situation to some extent by enabling officials at border gates...
- Adoption of advanced technologies for border control management have their share of risks. Also, the integrity of data sets can be corrupted through targeted attacks.
- The biometric identity management systems have helped improve the pandemic-like situation to some extent by enabling officials at border gates to identify passengers at faster rate
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Growing cyber threat demands a united response
A 2021 report by McAfee estimates the monetary loss from cybercrime globally to be approximately $945 billion. When you add...
- The dollar cost to organizations of all types due to cyber threat is staggering. It is estimated that the average cost of remediation in 2021 was $517,961 in the UAE
- The monetary loss from cybercrimes globally is put at $945 billion. When you add to this the global cost of cybersecurity products, it touches $1trn annually
Opinion
The proverb-ial road to success
After all, what is considered traditional wisdom — and therefore infallible — has at times been known to run counter...
- Owners of today’s large enterprises are advised to resist the temptation to personally manage the daily affairs of businesses
- Instead, they should hire the most talented professionals and delegate to them the authorities needed for that purpose
Opinion
Technology changes worker-firm relationship
Technology is allowing firms to shift an increasing share of work outside of their traditional boundaries, reducing costs and improving...
- Together, the rise of work-from-home and the gig economy have loosened the boundaries of the firm, making the ideas of a workplace and a worker more fluid
- Today, technological advances and the emergence of new digital platforms are allowing firms to shift an increasing share of work outside of their traditional boundaries
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Emerging markets: A constructive 2022 in sight
Even in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, policy changes, technology disruption and other challenges, positive structural forces remain...
- Across Emerging Markets, positive structural forces remain apparent and are likely to foster fresh investment opportunities
- Digitalization and decarbonization will also play key roles in pushing up the growing economies, says
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‘GCC may avoid NMCs, Abraajs with robust norms’
The region’s financial regulators must be extra vigilant to avoid catastrophic debt crises, Khalid Abdulla-Janahi, chairman of Vision 3, UAE,...
- Strong corporate governance framework is an integral part of ensuring clean flow of money and the GCC region is yet to make some improvements, says Khalid Abdulla-Janahi
- The companies in the region should have independent board members and directors with fixed term role to ensure high level of corporate governance, the Vision 3 chief adds
Strengthen emotional security to thwart cyberattacks
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Towards the next 50 years between Japan and UAE
"In education, Japan is working to promote study exchanges and internships for Emirati students and young professionals. Japan continues to...
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US is on course for soft landing, may avoid recession
During periods of economic stability, government focus typically gravitates towards infrastructure development. Investments in sectors like construction, transportation, energy, utilities,...
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Act wise as institutional investors fuel Bitcoin’s rise
This trend has been particularly emphasized with Blackrock, one of the world's most influential fund managers, applying for what could...
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Word power: Gender-neutral language need of the hour
"Despite all of the lovely words spoken by every company and organization during events such as International Women’s Day to...
- Many airlines and airports continue to use gender-specific language despite efforts towards gender equality in the Gulf region
- Gender-specific language is a reminder of historical bias that hinders efforts towards gender equality and this needs to change
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US Federal Reserve’s rate hike risky and ill-timed
"It appears that the central bank is willing to sacrifice parts of the economy and tighten its grip on households...
- The US Fed's failure to act earlier on inflation was a significant miscalculation, and now they have made another mistake with the latest rate hike, says deVere Group CEO
- It could potentially trigger not only a short-term but also a longer-term recession in the world's largest economy, with detrimental effects on the global economy, he adds
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The devastating impact of online identity theft
While companies with robust defense measures witness decreased attack volumes as criminals target easier targets, account takeovers have a profound...
- Most online consumers reuse usernames and passwords, making them vulnerable to organized crime rings as the attack surface for account takeovers continues to expand
- While companies with robust defense measures witness decreased attack volumes as criminals target easier targets, account takeovers erode trust and cause emotional trauma